Around the World in Eighty Days

The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English gentleman and bachelor living in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens. Despite his wealth, which is £40,000 (roughly £3,020,000 today), Fogg, whose countenance is described as "repose in action", lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision.Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °C) instead of 86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout, who is about 30 years old, as a replacement.Later on that day, in the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph, stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (roughly £1,510,000 today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872.

Product details

• Authors: Jules Verne, Jules Verne
• Publisher: Seven Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2025
• EAN: 9789403812502
• ISBN: 978-94-0-381250-2
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 22 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 563 g
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs